That Scottish papers reporting on Scottish bands exploit the same lunatic hyperbole to describe Scottish bands as Welsh papers to to describe Welsh bands, with the added bonus of being entirely clueless pop music outside of their own country's borders as well.

I happen to think that Glasvegas have some quite good songs and I'm looking forward to the album, but this really is just horribly embarrassing. I do hope they can actually survive this hype-storm, because I can see them getting crushed under this quite quickly for not being the second coming.

Oh yes, and The Twilight Sad are miles ahead of them. Now they do deserve to get some hype thrown their way...

John what’s his name is nothing compared to Billy “Suck in the Postcard Era & always Will be” Sloan but that Mickey Mono (whatever his name is) should quit his job as arevier as his reviews are very bad. The Thing that irks me about the Record is how West Bias it is when it reviews a band. By that I mean if you are a band from Glasgow then you are guaranteed a 5 star review case in questions is the the frat’s new album & Single being given a glorious 5 star review. Anyone knows that the frats are cancer’s that got lucky and the new album is by far the poorest thing to come out musically this year!!! I dare someone to say that mistress Mabel is a classic. The daily record is by far the worst music source in Scotland and should be exposed for how bad it is! There are some good people who write for them and might even be on this board or Jock rock

As for Glasvegas I will be seeing them at Leeds this august. For me this will be a perfect chance to watch them as there “NED” fan base will not be there and the Scot’s accent won’t cut it with the English so they will be bare for all to see. I don’t dislike them but they have a “Ned” Following that doesn’t understand music but football chant’s that sound like music. So the hype will be gone for them in this Gig

are good. They write brilliant pop songs. I agree that they're not as good as Twilight Sad but, then again, you'd have to be pretty damn good.

Because they've been hyped up by NME and Alan McGee (who, despite The Others, Thee Unstrung and all that horrific shit he foisted upon people earlier in the decade DID bring JAMC, MBV, Ride, etc to the table way back when) people are ready to have a go at them. Oh, and because they write POP songs and aren't unlistenable indie schmindie shite, that makes them predictable, I suppose. But what would I know? I'm a Sugababes fan.

I will admit that they're a lot like JAMC, before anyone says anything. But I like JAMC. (Nearly as much as Sugababes).